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  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    What foresight to keep them in their wrapping!!
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,266 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    • Paid £150 into ISA, first investment scheduled for next Monday
    • Money into pots
    • KitchenAid at £105+
    • 2 DVDs sold
    • Offers on 2 DVDs, both are lowballs and will be receiving counter offers ;)
    • Made £6.53 from a free slot machine promo (matched betting style risk free offer)

    Today I need to go to lots of meetings, get padded envelopes from £land for DVDs, go running and get over my dislike of the Post Office :)

    Work still dragging their heels over my underpaid pension, as it's nearly 6 months I probably need to give real thought to raising a grievance :(
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,266 Forumite
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    • KitchenAid up to £115+ :j
    • Another 3 DVDs sold :T
    • Made another £5.80 from a free slot machine promo :beer:
    • Transferring some money from MB account to top up Freedom Fund :money:
    • Was uber productive at work, actually tired :eek:
    • Bought the wrong sized padded envelopes for posting DVDs :mad:
    • 3 mile run :nackered:
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    hey ed, been following for a few days ( have been MIA again) loving the new vibe :) great opening post btw :)

    i enjoyed doing the MBing when i did it ... made some good money, would probably still be doing it if i hadnt cashed out tbh

    i read a post you had put up on the pensions board and thought oh yep thats exactly what i was thinking lol
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,266 Forumite
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    i read a post you had put up on the pensions board and thought oh yep thats exactly what i was thinking lol

    I know the one ;)
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    edited 7 May 2014 at 8:33PM
    P.s will need to arrange a wee meet up for coffee or lunch someday, seeing as how we live kinda close :)

    edited to add: obviously this will be a coffee brought from a flask carried with me :)
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,266 Forumite
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    See El - you're proper hardcore :coffee:
    • £20.43 locked in from a free bet
    • Money to pots
    • Muy excited about my second figures update tomorrow, will need to get tips from Lois on squeezing figures into a sig!
  • Thistlewhistle
    Thistlewhistle Posts: 1,091 Forumite
    Matched betting frightens the pants off me!
    I read up on it, and I understand it (I think), but actually doing it......scary!!!
    Mortgage at end 05/2007: £90200
    Mortgage at end 08/2018: £71646 paid £18354 (20.5%)
    MFD: :eek:Original:05/2042:eek:
    Car Finance: £8225 : £6392 (22.2% paid off)
    CC Debt (0% until 06/2020): £5640 : £4400 (21.7% paid off)

    Age of Money at 31/08/2018 = 23 days

    YNAB is changing the way I live my life....and spend my money!!
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Always best to do a few " dry " runs first thistle ... That way if it still scared you, you can leave and won't have risked any money :)
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,266 Forumite
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    The potential for loss is far lower than you'd think if you double check your steps.

    I've made c. £1200? and lost less than £50 (most of which was unrealised potential wins, not actual losses of my money) :)

    Sold another DVD, rattled through a lot of tasks so probably time to cheekily wrap some :o
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